(1) Written at Winterslow Hut, January 18-19, 1821.
(2) Webster's _Duchess of Malfy._
(3) Shenstone and Gray were two men, one of whom pretended live to
himself, and the other really did so. Gray shrunk from the public gaze
(he did not even like his portrait to be prefixed to his works) into his
own thoughts and indolent musings; Shenstone affected privacy that he
might be sought out by the world; the one courted retirement in order
to enjoy leisure and repose, as the other coquetted with it merely to
be interrupted with the importunity of visitors and the flatteries of
absent friends.
(4) Plut. of Banishment. He compares those who cannot live out of their
own country to the simple people who fancied the moon of Athens was a
finer moon than that of Corinth,
Labentem coelo quae ducitis annum.
--VIRG. _Georg._